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Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and those offered by Chinese web giant Tencent are now central to everyday musical activity across much of the world, with enormous ramifications for musical culture in modern societies. Bringing together case studies from twelve countries, Music Streaming around the World provides the first international account of how streaming is shaping music culture today by considering the implications of streaming platforms for the production, distribution, and consumption of recorded music around the globe.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. The Global Spread of Music Streaming: Capitalism and Colonialism, Technology and Culture
David Hesmondhalgh
2. Platformization and the Recording Industry in Kenya
Andrew J. Eisenberg
3. Music Streaming, Platform Labor, and Intermediaries
Emília Barna
4. Charting Anonymous Hits: How Short Video Platforms Have Changed the Chinese Music Industries
Shuwen Qu and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
5. "From the Region, For the Region": Anghami and the Postcolonial Challenges of Localizing Music Streaming in Emerging Markets
Darci Sprengel
6. How Streaming Is Reshaping Latin American Music Culture: The Case of Mexican Corridos Tumbados
Rodrigo Gómez, Ignacio Gallego, and Argelia Muñoz-Larroa
7. The Japanese Transition to Streaming Music: Corporate Hesitancy and Individual Innovation
Noriko Manabe
8. Inside Playlist Pitching: Music Promotion on Streaming Platforms in Italy
Francesco D'Amato
9. Changes and Continuities in the Indian Nonfilm Recorded Music Industry under Platformization
Aditya Lal
10. Independent Music Creators and Self-Releasing in China: A History of Platformization
Zhongwei (Mabu) Li and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
11. If Streaming Doesn't Pay the Bills, Will Advertising?
Onur Sesigür
12. Inequity by Design: Music Streaming Taxonomies as Ruinous Infrastructure
Raquel Campos Valverde
13. Streaming into the Metaverse
Jeremy Wade Morris
Afterword: Music Streaming and Throwing Stones
Yiu Fai Chow
Index
